Category: Metacoda Plug-ins

This is a short post to let those readers who run or schedule Metacoda Plug-ins in batch know that, with the recent Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R1 release, we have published a GitHub repository to help with setup of the Metacoda Plug-ins Batch Interface. You can find this new repository, together with setup instructions, at https://github.com/Metacoda/metacoda-plugins-batch-setup

The main benefit of this Metacoda Plug-ins Batch Interface Setup Utility is the automation of much of the previous manual work involved in setting up and site-specific tailoring of the batch interface samples. It also includes additional batch exports for Authentication Domains and External Identities (from the new Auth Domain Reviewer and External Identity Manager plug-ins). The Metacoda recommended practice starter tests for SAS metadata security have also been updated.

If you have any questions or comments please let me know by posting below. You can also contact us via the Metacoda contact form or send us an email at Metacoda support.

Sometimes you want to find all of the SAS metadata objects a user may be associated with. Where SAS applications have tagged a user as a ResponsibleParty, we can use the Metacoda Metadata Explorer with an advanced XMLSELECT style query to find them. Use the following query (including curly braces) in the Search field, replacing the Name value (demobob here) with the name (not display name) of the user you want to look for:

This is the first of a series of quick-tip type posts on Metacoda Plug-ins. Most of my previous posts have been relatively long (and less frequent). These quick-tip posts will generally be shorter and hopefully more frequent (time permitting). They will mostly be of use to Metacoda customers and may include links to the appropriate documentation pages (login required). I will the posts with “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip” so you can browse the collection if you want (currently a collection of 1!).

To kick the series off, this post is about the forced-refresh preferences. These are preferences that control whether or not Metacoda Plug-ins will refresh its cache of SAS security metadata prior to exporting HTML, CSV and Security Test XML files. You will find these preferences as check-boxes located in Security Tools Common Preferences available via the Preferences context menu item from right-mouse clicking over most of the Metacoda Plug-ins.